July 8 Meeting Minutes

 July 8, 2025, Meeting Minutes   

 Announcements:  Nancy filled in for Theresa, who was traveling. 

 

Our Toastmaster was Kelly with " Echoes of my Toastmaster Evolution.” 

Our Sergeant at Arms Katie, called our meeting to order.  

 Our President Nancy for Theresa opened our meeting.  

VPE Next   Nancy Meeting Roles and Education Minute Nancy shared information on an article from TM Magazine "AI Strategies in Public Speaking” https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine/magazine-issues/2023/July/ai-strategies-of-public-speaking. 

GATE TEAM: 

Grammarian: Bill with Word of the day “Goals or Goal Setting”   

Ah Counter –Bill 

Timer –Maria 

General Evaluator Warren 

Our 1st Speaker was Marcus with “Stories lead to items.”   

Evaluating Marcus’s speech was Deanna 

Our Table Topics Master was Nadine 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Maria, Barb, Bill, Deanna, Warren, Nancy, Katie and Kelly. 

Members in Attendance were Maria, Bill, Nadine, Katie, Barb, Nancy Kelly, Warren, Robert, and Marcus, Deanna  

Guests in Attendance:  none 

Motion to adjourn: Warren, 2nd Robert 

 

 

 

July 1, 2025 Meeting Minutes

 July 1,2025 Minutes 

 

Announcements:  

Theresa announced that she was the new club president, and this was her first meeting. 

She also reminded club members that there would be an after-meeting Potluck at the 

Hop and Hound bar in Bothell.  All were welcome to attend including our 2 guests; 

Anvita and Suthvik (the twins) 

 

Toastmaster:   Deanna with the theme “Summer Fun” 

Our Sergeant at Arms:  Katie called our meeting to order. 

Our President Theresa:  opened our meeting. 

VPE Deanna for Nancy Meeting Roles and Education Minute:  Deanna mentioned to members that the district 2 newsletter Starburst was full of information.   She admitted that she doesn’t usually read it, as she gets lots of E-mails, as we all do. But she did read it this week and found 

Informative information about Toastmasters beyond our club. 

GATE TEAM 

Grammarian:  Natalia with the word of the day “Juice” 

Ah Counter Mara 

Timer –Lynne 

General Evaluator Warren 

Our 1st Speaker was Marcus with “Items Carry Stories” 

Our 2nd Speaker was Bill with, “The Short Sips Journey.” 

Evaluating Marcus’s speech was Kelly 

Evaluating Bill’s speech was Theresa  

 

Table Topics Master was Katie Table topics speakers were Robert, Natalia, Anvita, and Suthvik . 

Members in Attendance were Warren, Theresa, Bill, Lynne, Robert, Marcus, Natalia, Kelly, Deanna, Mara, Katie 

 guests in Attendance: Anvita and Suthvik 

Motion to adjourn:  Mara 2nd Kelly